Meeting By the Reiver (was RE: ambient)

From: Mark Turner (nugroove@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 23:36:38 CEST

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    > Speaking of -Paris,Texas --- there is also an album by Ry Cooder and an
    > Indian percussionist who's name I cant remember at the moment called "Down
    > By The River" (??maybe). Sorry for being vague. I did actually own this cd
    > years ago and it is excellent. Anyone have a more info??

    MEETING BY THE RIVER
    Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

    Here's the review from Amazon.com:

    Ry Cooder has long had an interest in other people's music, from the blues
    and gospel of black America through classic jazz and the music of Cuba. Even
    by this standard, his meeting with Mohan Vishwa Bhatt is certainly a
    departure. He is neither a serious student of Indian music nor in any way a
    master of its intricacies. Yet on his improvised session (this album was
    recorded without rehearsal in one evening), he and Bhatt truly collided
    musically and created moments worthy of the world-music Grammy they received
    for it. Bhatt is an iconoclastic character himself. He plays a modified box
    he calls the mohan vina that is a hybrid of a classical Indian instrument
    and slide guitar. He is long trained in the arduous classical style, yet his
    work has always demanded a lot of freedom. His duets here with Cooder are
    completely unique, liberating both artists from the usual constraints and
    creating a new musical style that is unlikely to be repeated or
    imitated. --Louis Gibson

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